Garrison Keillor is Back with the Prairie Home Love & Comedy Tour

Keillor Celebrates his 75^th
Birthday with a 28-City Bus Tour!

ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On Monday, August 7 Garrison Keillor, celebrates his 75^th
birthday—the next morning, Tuesday, August 8 “The Old Scout,” boards the
bus and kicks off a 28-city (in 39 days) Coast-to-Coast Prairie
Home Love & Comedy Tour—2017!

Two-plus hours of stories, love duets, Guy Noir, Private Eye, The
Cowboys, poetic outbursts and the famous Singing Intermission at which
the Eager & Able-Bodied stand and sing around the campfire. Garrison
will be joined by sound-effects genius Fred Newman, Richard Dworsky and
the exemplary Road Hounds (Larry Kohut, Richard Kriehn and Chris
Siebold), and on the first leg of the tour the inimitable Heather Masse
and then the extraordinary Aoife O’Donovan.

Garrison
Keillor in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a
freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in
1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and from July
6, 1974 through July 1, 2016, he created and hosted his popular variety
show, A
Prairie Home Companion. His many books include Lake
Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A
Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The
Keillor Reader (Viking). He is the host of the daily program The
Writer’s Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of
poetry, most recently, Good Poems: American Places (Viking).
In 2006, Keillor played himself in the movie adaptation of his show, a
film directed by Robert Altman. In 2007 he opened an independent
bookstore, Common
Good Books, in St. Paul, the city where he and his wife make their
home.

Growing up in rural Maine, Heather
Masse sang hymns and folk songs around home with her
family. Now based in New York, this New England Conservatory of Music alum
is a one-third of the Juno Award-winning Canadian trio The Wailin’
Jennys. Lock My Heart is her recording with piano legend Dick
Hyman. A new album, August Love Song — on which she joins forces
with trombone great Roswell Rudd — was recently released on Red House
Records.

With her ethereal voice and substantive songwriting, Aoife
O’Donovan captivates fans and critics alike. She was lead
singer of the string band Crooked Still and a featured vocalist on The
Goat Rodeo Sessions, the Grammy-winning album by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart
Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Aoife is also 1/3 of the band I’m
With Her, with Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz. Her own recordings
include 2016’s In the Magic Hour, follow-up to her acclaimed
solo debut, Fossils. Her most recent release, Man In A
Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge, is a collection of original
songs and covers, recorded live at The Sinclair.

Sound effects man Fred
Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for
film and TV. Turns out, no one is more surprised than Fred that he’s
made a career out of doing what he used to do behind the teacher’s back
— crossing his eyes, making sounds, and doing voices. He readily admits
that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several
classrooms, “once by my bottom lip.”

Keyboardist, composer, arranger, and longtime Prairie Home Companion
music director Richard
Dworsky has collaborated with such diverse musicians as
Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Brad Paisley, Kristin Chenoweth, and Sheryl
Crow. He has provided music for documentaries on HBO and PBS, and has
released many recordings of original material, including his latest, All
In Due Time.

Contacts

Prairie Home Productions
David O’Neill, 651-999-1095
davido@prairiehome.us